I wonder though, if you bought it on GOG couldn't you redeem the keys on Steam too?

...but I think you're better off running the game(s) without Steam, especially if your internet connection decides to go bonkers one day. ;)

Depends on the title.

And yeah, I got dinged as well. Twice at the same time actually. I had the DoW 2 Retribution and some DLC for it in my wishlist for over two months, waiting for it to go on sale. I finally resigned myself to the fact it won't and bought it. Then two weeks later was a major sale and the game was on it.

That's not the end of it though. I went on the forums to vent and someone said A friend of his got dinged with Solar 2 as well.

I bought solar 2 the day before. Yeah, I was not a happy camper.

Well currently I try to condole myself with heavy gaming and try to convince myself that at least I gave the money directly to CDProject :)

I've even bought games that were later offered for free.

Sometimes it is the opposite though. I've bought a game for a discounted price, then later the price has gone back up! I was so glad I bought them during the promo, saved me a lot of money which I could waste on cheap cars and fast women.

So, what is the problem? I myself bought it for 40 euros retail with code redemption, when first out in Enhanced Edition.

This is a TRIPLE A' title, a masterpiece, a cult-classic game, that is and feels still new. It deserves even a double price.

Once, not long ago, was gifted out completely free to EVERYONE in here. Why would anyone be pissed, either for later discount, or gift?!? I simply gifted it away.

LoL, don't be like that! You at least supported GoG and the DRM-Free Revolution! Think of it as a donation with well invested money!

Simple solution to this is: http://www.isthereanydeal.com

Create an account, import your Steam and other site wishlists, install the ITAD Firefox addon to synchronize your GOG wishlist also, then set up notifications on sale promos on individual games you wish to keep a closer eye on. You can set up a minimum price or minimum discount percentage (or both) to be notified on for a given game and the site tracks games on virtually every legitimate game reseller online. They also provide historical price graphs on all games they track so you can see a game's pricing history across all stores.

This information lets you know what the average price is for a given game over time and how often it goes on sale. You can then anticipate how long it might be until it goes on sale somewhere else, and set up to be notified of it as soon as they discover it on sale somewhere.

Never pay more than the cheapest price ever for any game again, and never miss out on a game you want going on sale ever again - use isthereanydeal.com

Disclaimer: I am unaffiliated with isthereanydeal.com, just a normal end user gamer like anyone, but I can't imagine how or why anyone would not want to use their website other than not knowing it exists before stumbling upon it themselves or reading my post right now.

Make frustration over missed deals on games a thing of the past, use ITAD!

Example: [url=http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/price?plain=witcheriiassassinsofkingsenhancededition]The Witcher 2 price history[/url]

I've pre-ordered a digital game for only a marginal discount, just to see it given away for $1 min. PWYW on release day, along with other games and a soundtrack that wasn't included in the pre-order. And I'm probably not the only one here. ;)

The most curious thing about it was that the developers didn't understand why anyone could be upset by this, as the people who pre-ordered the game obviously wanted to give their money and support to them out of their own free will, and they were just doing the release day PWYW bundle to cater to those who weren't their loyal suporters yet. Incidentally, I think that was the first and last time I ever pre-ordered a game.

Not to me (although one time I bought a game I really wanted at a retail store and two days later it was included with the magazine I buy regularly :P) but a couple of years ago a friend of mine bought Left 4 Dead literally ten minutes before it went on sale (on Steam obviously). He contacted support and incredibly enough they actually gave him a refund.

Steam has one-time refund policy, supposedly with 'no question asked' if you insist. Well...

For preorder, you can even refund from Account page now.

For anything else, good luck asking for refund on Steam lol.

I bought Wing Commander III for 150,- guilders ($75,-) 20 years ago, now it only costs $5,-, if only I would have waited.

:^(

I have had a few experiences of buying a game (or other things) to then see it go down in price. I always just remind myself that the price I paid was reasonable for me at the time, and that I wanted the product enough to buy it.

I also run a policy with games where they have to be £10 or under (or very special).

LOL!!!

Yeah, in the last 8 months or so I set my default policy as a $3 maximum I'll spend on any game as my general rule, however much older games or games I'm not as interested in I may set a lower limit of $2 or $1 or whatever is appropriate, and games that I am very enthusiastic about and actually want to play right away I will go over this limit in an amount proportionate to how bad I want to get it or how soon I want to play it, but even then it is unlikely to exceed $10 except in very special cases. To date, the only games that I've paid more than my $3 for that I can remember specifically were ArmA 2 on sale here for $8.49 or something like that quite a while back, and XWing a few days ago for $4.99. Because STAR WARS! There might be another game or two that I broke $5 perhaps but I can't think of one.

I've had some people ask me "why such a low maximum price?" over time, but that's easy to answer. The price I'll pay for something co-relates to a combination of how strongly I desire it, and how badly I want to play it right away modulated by how many games I am actively playing at the moment and how many games I already own and am eager to play. Since I have 700 or more games and haven't played most of them and tonnes of them are exciting, when I need entertainment of high value - I already have it in abundance. So I'm not particularly eager to rush out and pay top dollar for something new as I've got adequate supply of new unplayed games already. I simply don't want them bad enough to pay more than $3 for them at this point in time, so I'm more than happy to wait forever to play them while keeping myself busy with what I have. But what can sway me to buy them sooner, is their price dropping below $3 at which point it moves from being a desire-based purchase to being an emotional whimsical purchase that is below my threshold of caring about the money. I could live from now until I die and never buy a game again and never be game-bored. But if the industry dangles a carrot in my face for an amount of money that I consider pocket change then they can entice me to add their game to my pile basically. :)

Hmm, looks like I bought Rex Nebular the day before it went on sale. Oh well.